"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the
animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel
nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest
lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)

Monday, November 18, 2013

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck suggested on Monday that pregnant
women 65-years-old and older were losing their doctors because of
President Barack Obama health care reform law.In a segment titled “Who’s Ruining the Economy Now?” Fox Business
host Stuart Varney announced that the president was not going to be able
to keep the promise that people could keep their doctors because
“United Healthcare has just dropped — we don’t know exactly how many —
but thousands of doctors have been dropped from United Heathcare’s
Medicare Advantage program.”Conservative media outlets like The Washington Times have blamed United Healthcare’s decision on the Affordable Care Act.“That
leaves hundreds of thousands of patients without the doctor that
they’ve had for many many years,” Varney added. “We don’t know how many
thousands have been dropped, but thousands have been dropped. What about
their patients? What about the people who used to have this doctor who
now no longer have this doctor? Broken promise.”“And many of those people are women who are expecting babies and who
may just have a real relationship with their physician and want to see
the same doctor deliver possibly their second child,” Hasselbeck opined.
“And they are now left in the dark in a time that they feeling quite
vulnerable.”“Most of them are elderly,” Varney pointed out.Medicare Advantage is a type of Medicare offered by private companies
to people over 65 years of age. Medicare Advantage covers traditional
Medicare plus additional services, but customers must pay a premium. It’s not clear how many women over the age of 65 are pregnant, but United Healthcare does offer maternity coverage to Medicare Advantage customers...................